Father of the Bride (1991 film)

Father of the Bride is a 1991 American comedy film starring Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Kimberly Williams, George Newbern, Martin Short, B. D. Wong and Kieran Culkin. It is a remake of the 1950 film of the same name.

George Banks Steve Martin is the owner of an athletic shoe company in San Marino, California, whose 22yearold daughter, Annie Kimberly Williams, returns from Europe, telling them she is engaged to Bryan MacKenzie George Newbern, a man from an upperclass family from BelAir, despite them only having known each other for three months. The sudden shock turns the warm reunion into a heated argument between George and Annie, but they quickly reconcile in time for Bryan to arrive and meet them. Despite Bryans good financial status and likeable demeanour, George takes an immediate dislike to him while his wife, Nina Diane Keaton, accepts him as a potential soninlaw.George and Nina meet Bryans parents, John and Joanna MacKenzie. Though George feels comfort from John also expressing how shocked he had initially been at Bryans marriage plans, he quickly gets into trouble when he begins nosing around and eventually ends up falling into the pool when cornered by the MacKenzies vicious pet Dobermans. All is forgiven, however, and the Banks meet with an eccentric European wedding designer, Franck Eggelhoffer Martin Short and his assistant, Howard Weinstein B. D. Wong, where George immediately begins complaining about the price of the extravagant wedding items. The high price, 250 a head, plus the problems of wedding invitations begin to take their toll on George and he becomes slightly insane. The last straw occurs when his wrongly sized tuxedo, which he had struggled to put on, rips when he bends his back. He leaves the house to cool off, but ends up causing a disturbance at a supermarket. Fed up with paying for things he doesnt want, he starts removing hot dog buns from their 12bun packets so as to match the 8dog packets of hot dogs. He ends up getting arrested, but Nina arrives to bail him out on the condition that he stop ruining Annies wedding. ........

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